Railway-track appliance



A. A. JARDIN.

RAILWAY TRACK APPLIANCE. Appucflm FILED NOV. 12, 1919.

Patented June 22, 1920.

PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT A. JARDIN, OF CONGRESS PARK, ILLINOIS.

RAILWAY-TRACK APPLIANCE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 22, 1920.

Application filed November 12, 1919. Serial No. 337,442.

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, ALBERT A. J ARDTN, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Congress Park, inthe county of Cook and State ofIllinois, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvementsin Railway-Track Appliances, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription. I

The invention relates to railway track appliances.

The object of the invention is to provide simple and eflicient means forpreventing injury or shock to railroad cars at the ends of a track.

The invention consists in the several novel features hereinafter setforth and more particularly defined by claims at the conclusion hereof.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a railway track provided with theinvention. Fig. 2 is a plan. Fig. 3 is a section taken on line 3-3 ofFig. 2.

The end of the railway track is formed of rails 5 which are laid uponties 13 in usual manner. The ends of these rails are curved downwardly,as at 6, to permit the car wheels to run off the end of the track sothat the car will be arrested by the roadway if it is pushed too far. Apile of material 14:, such as cinders which are usually available inrailroad yards, is placed adjacent the end of the track and ispositioned so that the body of a railroad car will strike it before itswheels leave the track. In ordinary use, this pile will be setsufficiently close to the end of the track and will inherently yieldwhen struck by the car, thus serving as a bumper or shock absorber. Ifthe impact should be excessive, the cinders will yield to the force ofthe car sufiiciently to permit the car-wheels to run off the curved end6, thus permitting the car to be derailed so that the roadway will actin a supplemental manner to resist further movement of the car. Thiswill usually cause the car to be arrested, even under abnormalconditions, without breakage. 1

A rerailing device is provided and consists of rail sections 7 whichhave straight portions 8 which are secured by bolts 11 to the innersides of the end portions of rails 5. The treads of sections 7 and rails5 are spaced apart by sleeves 12 so that the wheel flan es can passbetween them. Beyond the trac -rails 5, the rail-sections 7 are laidupon any breakage.

ties and form converging portions 9 and there beyond. the sectionsareprovided with straight portions 10 which are secured together by sleevedbolts 11. The rail sections 7 are laid upon and securedto ties 13 laidin continuation of the track rails 5.

In operation, when a car is pushed toward the end of a rail, it willstrike the cinder pile 14 which forms a yielding bumper orshock-absorber and offers sufiicient resistance when the car is notpropelled with excessive speed to arrest it without causing y Ii theimpact of the car against the pile is excessive, the car-wheels will runoff the curved end 6 of the trackrails 5 and onto the roadway, and thusthere will be offered sufficient additional resistance to the furthermovement of the car, so that it will be stopped. When that occurs, andthe car is pulled away from the pile, the converging portions 9 of therail sections 7 will direct the wheels of the car back onto thetrack-rails 7, thus serving as a rerailing device.

The invention has been found to efficiently serve its purpose and is ofparticular ad vantage in railroad yards where a great deal of switchingis done and in connection with temporary tracks.

The invention is not to be understood as restricted to the details setforth, since these may be modified within the scope of the appendedclaims, without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.

. Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is:

1. The combination with rails at the end of a track, having terminalswhich permit a car to pass ofi the track and a pile of materialextending a substantial distance above the rails forming a yieldablebumper.

2. The combination with rails at the end of a track having down-turnedterminals which permit a car to pass off the track and a pile ofmaterial extending a substantial distance above the rails adjacent theend of the track and forming a yieldable bumper for a. car-body.

3. The combination with rails at the end of a track having terminalswhich permit a car to pass ofi the track, a pile of material extending asubstantial distance above the rails forming a yieldable bumper, and arerailing device adjacent the end of the track.

l. The combination With rails at the end 01' a track having terminalswhich permit a car to pass off the track, a pile of material extending asubstantial distance above the rails forming a yieldable bumper, andconvergent rail-sections secured to the ends of the track rails andforming a rel-ailing device.

5. The combination with rails at the end of a track having downwardlycurved terminals which permit a car to pass off the track, a pile ofmaterial forming a yieldable bumper, and a pair of rail sections eachhaving a straight portion secured at the inner side of the track-railsrespectively With their treads spaced from the treads of the trackrails, convergent portions beyond the track forming a rerailing device,and straight portions at their outer ends secured together. i

6. The combination of a pair of rails forming a railroad track, therails having their-ends extending downwardly, a pile of materialadjacent the end of said rails and adapted to act as a shock-absorberfor a car, a pair of rail sections secured inside of the rails formingthe track and convergent beyond the track and having their ends securedtogether.

ALBERT A. JARDIN.

